Those Pesky ALT codes

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Many times I see strange characters in emails and postings and wondered where they came from. Easy, it's the ALT codes. Get any of the characters in the table below by using the ALT key (Win keyboard) and use the numeric pad in numeric lock. Hold ALT down while you type the sequence of numbers, then release ALT to get the character displayed. For some codes nothing happened for that code (or maybe it was a space?). Here's a PDF of the most useful ones to print  for a help sheet http://www.usefulshortcuts.com/downloads/ALT-Codes.pdf  Another excellent page is here http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html   If you need the full exploration of the codes then the table below may help.

ALT + xxx0123456789
0-9
☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○
10-19◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼
20-29§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔
30-39▲▼
!"#$%&'
40-49()*+,-./01
50-5923456789:;
60-69<=>?@ABCDE
70-79FGHIJKLMNO
80-89PQRSTUVWXY
90-99Z[\]^_`abc
100-109defghijklm
110-119nopqrstuvw
120-129xyz{|}~⌂Çü
130-139éâäàåçêëèï
140-149îìÄÅÉæÆôöò
150-159ûùÿÖÜø£Ø׃
160-169áíóúñѪº¿®
170-179¬½¼¡«»░▒▓│
180-189┤ÁÂÀ©╣║╗╝¢
190-199¥┐└┴┬├─┼ãÃ
200-209╚╔╩╦╠═╬¤ðÐ
210-219ÊËÈıÍÎÏ┘┌█
220-229▄¦Ì▀ÓßÔÒõÕ
230-239µþÞÚÛÙýݯ´
240-249­­±‗¾§÷¸°¨
250-255·¹³²■
Byte size is only 0-255
0123456789
Table below adds 0 in front to give another limited range, many repeats of above
0123456789
0128-0129€
0130-0139‚ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š‹
0140-0149ŒŽ‘’“”•
0150-0159–—˜™š›œžŸ
0160-0169  ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©
0170-0179ª«¬­®¯°±²³
0180-0189´µ·¸¹º»¼½
0190-0199¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇ
0200-0209ÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑ
0210-0219ÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛ
0220-0229ÜÝÞßàáâãäå
0230-0239æçèéêëìíîï
0240-0249ðñòóôõö÷øù
0250-0255úûüýþÿ
0123456789

           

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